Xavier was catatonic.
None of it was easy to digest and sounded like a bunch of conspiracy theories thrown together.
But he was sitting inside Luca's space and experiencing said conspiracy.
His brain felt frozen as he listened to Luca's explanation.
He was really trying his best to listen, ignoring his conscience, which kept screaming, 'Criminal!' at him.
When Luca started by prefacing his story with how he really was "Luca Soren Kyros," Xavier already figured that this was going to turn into something bigger.
But then he mentioned how he didn't think so when he initially got here.
"I've been here for over a month and a half."
"Here? You mean at school?" Xavier asked.
"That too, but here as in, in this body." Luca pointed to himself as if that was a given fact.
Oh.
Not the place or planet, but an actual body!